Month: June 1999

Election day in Indonesia – the first for 40 years in which parties could freely contend – had the atmosphere of a celebration. Coming one year after the overthrow of the Suharto dictatorship by a […]

The recent roots of the bloody break-up of the former Yugoslavia lies in the deepening crisis it faced in the 1980s. Throughout the 1980s its economic situation worsened. By 1987 inflation was running at over […]